October 2011 Blog Posts (41)

My wife and I flew down from Maryland (boy, were our arms tired) to attend Alien Encounters II in the ATL. Last year, we attended "I"; "II" did not disappoint us.

Thursday featured a very moving tribute and discussion at the Hammond's House about L.A. Banks who passed away this summer. Leslie was a phenomenal writer and overall good person. She touched a lot of lives and broke many barriers for speculative fiction writers of color.

I was pleased to attend the authors' discussion and book signing at Auburn Avenue Research library. This Alien Encounters topic was "Beyond Twilight and Harry Potter: Speculative Fiction for Young Adults of Color." The dicussion was timely, interesting, and important. I'm sad that I missed the other sessions, I was knee deep in finishing…

Many people have found themselves disappointed with the state of what passes as acceptable "black media" today. Ofen times we are portrayed as a loud, raunchy, and otherwise ignorant race of people on conventional television. Sure, there are a few rays of hope (Oprah's Network immediately comes to mind). However, they are certainly not the majority, nor extremely popular.

A substantial contributor to this state, we believe, is a lack in the number of black owned and…

My new book is out “How To Recognize A Demon Has Become Your Friend” horror, science fiction, fiction and poetry available eBook and pdf from Amazon, etc $4.99 and paper next week. Check my site for updates

What's happening fam :)? My Probe giveaway went very well, so I've decided to giveaway 2 pdf copies of my first novel Immortal. I think it's a great way to generate publicity for my upcoming novels Immortal 4: Collision of Time & The Switch: Clockwork. And I'll be doing some other promos as well :).

Hello, everybody! I managed to catch only a part of The History Detectives last night, but from what I saw, I thought it would make a good, if short blog.

Back in around 1952 or so, Fawcett Books published Romance Comic Books. To tie in with this trend and capture a whole new audience, a white man named Roy Ald created and wrote "Negro Romance," a series that had runs of 100,000 issues each. But due to poor sales and other pressures of the times, only 3 issues were ever…

I know I don't post or comment much on this site. That in no way is an indication of how I value being a member of Black Science Fiction Society. From reading forum and blog posts, as well as group posts and coments, I have gained invaluable insight and have been introduced to great writers I would never have encountered if not for this group. I felt I've become a much stronger writer since joining this group. Since I joined, I can give some credit to the Society for getting two short…

Did you know that black people are spending more time on the internet than they do watching television? According to a 2010 African American Media Consumption report submitted to the FCC, 32% of media consumed by the ethnic group comes from the internet, followed by television at 26% and radio at 17%. (so much for Basketball Wives!)

Out of that time spent on the internet, 74% goes to updating a status on social networking sites! People of African Desent…Continue

Did you know that the game industry is swallowing music and sound design artists? Having you're own record label and selling cds out of car are not the only ways to a be major success in music. As game systems and PCs have become more powerful the demand for talented audio engineers and artists have went through the roof! When you think about it, video games would be pretty bad if there were no sound in them. The beautiful score in the…

African-Americans' buying power is expected to reach $1.1 trillion by 2015, according to The State of the African-American Consumer Report, released today, collaboratively by Nielsen, a leading global provider of insights and analytics into what consumers watch and buy, and The National Newspaper Publishers Association…

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The U.S. Coast Guard lieutenant spent hours on end planning a wide-scale domestic terrorist attack, even logging in at his work computer on the job at headquarters to study the manifestos and heinous paths of mass shooters, prosecutors say. He researched how to carry out sniper attacks, they contend, and whether rifle scopes were illegal. And all the while, investigators assert, he was amassing a cache of weapons as he ruminated about attacks on politicians and journalists.

But Christopher P. Hasson was not an isolated figure, according to a contractor who worked with him. The 49-year-old…

Tradition and history is embedded deep within the royal roots of Prairie View A&M University. When we stand for the school’s official song we ” Point to the Hill”. The Hill in which is the highest point in the Waller County area.

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University is an academic community focused on students—providing them with interdisciplinary learning opportunities, teaching them with faculty renowned for excellence, connecting them to cutting edge discoveries in research, and…

April D. Ryan - American Urban Radio Network, CNN White House Correspondent, Morgan State University Alumni Photo - Central Jersey Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta: "The Presidency in Black and White: My Up Close View of the White House and Race in…

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